Traditional publication employs a pre-publication peer review process, but the fast pace of Connexions content development requires systems of quality assurance that do not rely on such long and exclusive processes.

Connexions opens up the editorial process to third-party reviewers for post-publication review. While Connexions users will have access to all content in the Commons (of any quality), users will also have the ability to preferentially locate and view Modules via Lenses, each of which have a different focus provided by a third party.

Examples of Lens sources might include:

• Professional societies, universities, school boards, publishers, consumer unions
• Colleagues and peers
• Most popular, most linked, highest user ratings
• Learning assessment rating